01 September 2010

Firefox add-ons I like

Since I use a number of different computers with different user profiles and such, I have Firefox with separate profiles everywhere. Maybe I should figure out how to synchronize them or something, but whatever, here's a list of what I like to remind myself next time I have to install Firefox anew:

Privacy

Adblock Plus — for blocking ads

HTTPS-Everywhere — because I like to encourage web site operators to use HTTPS to secure everything, whether it's really necessary or not

BlockSite — for blocking the sites I like to go to for procrastination purposes. It's amazing how just that little extra effort required to go to those sites can stop me from wasting time. It's almost like typing in "news.ycombinator.com" is just a reflex, and if something is there to block that reflex the amount of procrastination drops significantly!

Download Statusbar — is a way better way to display current downloads

FireGestures —mouse gestures control of FireFox

FEBE — for backing up FireFox settings and plug-ins

Teaching Web Design

Html Validator — validates HTML web pages. Great for use when marking students web pages!

TinEye Reverse Image Search — convenient access to TinEye for finding where images came from. Great for checking to see if students submitted web pages with images they copied without permission from elsewhere

While I'm here, this new TrueType font for Mac, Windows, and Linux, looks cool for programming purposes, called "Anonymous Pro". This has nothing to do with Firefox, but I have nowhere else to write this down. :)